Word: insularity
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There is still a residual insular attitude, as expressed by the character Uncle Matthew in Nancy Mitford's novel The Pursuit of Love: "Abroad is utterably bloody and foreigners are fiends." Few Britons seriously believe that they will lose their national identity if they join the Market, any more than French or Germans have lost theirs. Still, they do not want to feel lumped together as one part of a frequently squabbling whole. Most important, at least in the short run, the British fear that higher-priced Common Market foods will cause drastic increases in their cost of living...
However, the presence of these academic oases, the total internal reflection in which the light of the social concern of much of the Southern black middle class was ensnared, and its contentment with insular success, all tended to reduce the scope of the objectives of the Montgomery move-ment. Moreover, the black middle class in both the North and the South had, in general, failed to form a viable political union with the black masses. Blame for this rests with both parties. During the first half of the century middle class men and women, like William Monroe Trotter of Boston...
...television specials? King, whose conception of success before Montgomery was that of the insular notoriety of the well-respected minister of a silk-stocking church, discerned within the Zeitgeist the possibility of transcending this notion of success. This idea of becoming a national figure must have played with increasing regularity in King's mind as his press coverage and that of the boycott increased. Having been reared in an environment in which one's social position was, in part, evaluated by the number of one's citations on the society page of the Atlanta Daily World. King was sufficiently media...
...winners, and Jackson is surely that. Only 58, he has served 30 years in Congress, 18 of them in the Senate. In the last election, Washington, clearly a two-party state, returned him to Capitol Hill with a staggering 83.9% of the vote. As chairman of the Interior and Insular Affairs Committee, he has gained a reputation for moving bills through committee more quickly than any other chairman. He is also third-ranking Democrat on the powerful Armed Services Committee and a member of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. His subtle knack for disagreeing without being disagreeable has made...
...only to the extent they are willing to pay for the institutions necessary for this particular life style. Some Catholic. Jewish, and Protestant Americans, obsessed like some Negroes are today with their ethnicity, have satisfied this craving for their Catholicness, Jewishness, and Protestantness by founding and supporting their own insular educational institutions. But it is clearly not the purpose of public higher educational institutions, nor of the great American private institutions like Harvard which accept the principle of non-sectarian recruitment, to satisfy this need...